Favourite Family Recipe: Daphne’s Tofu Pot Pie

Tofu Pot Pie

Ingredients:

• Tofu – washed and cut into cubes
• 2/3 cup flour
• 2/3 cup nutritional yeast
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup chopped celery
• 3 cups of steamed vegetables of your choice
• Mashed potatoes (Optional)

Instructions:

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In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup flour , ¼ cup nutritional yeast, 1 tsp salt , 1/2 tsp garlic powder. Add tofu which is rinsed and drained and cut up into small cubes. Mix. Heat 2 TBSP oil in a frying pan. Add 1 cup chopped onion and ½ cup chopped celery. When onions are soft add tofu. Fry for a few minutes.

Steam 3 cups of vegetables.

Mix vegetables and tofu, onion, and celery mixture in a big casserole dish and sprinkle with soya sauce.

To make gravy:

Toast ⅓ cup of flour in a medium-size saucepan till you can smell it. Then add 1/3 cup yeast. Stir until you can smell it too. Then add ¼ cup of oil and 2 cups of water. Stir together, then lower heat and simmer. Add soya sauce. Then pour over the casserole dish.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.